Is Bush refusing to overturn his fathers executive order banning offshore drilling payback for his oil buddies

Bush鈥檚 father, under political pressure to show his environmental credentials, issued an executive order in 1990 that barred most offshore drilling.





So why has Bush not overturned it? Congress cannot overturn an executive order, they can only change federal law. Congress can overturn the federal law banning drilling in protected areas on LAND, but only Bush can make it legal to drill offshore. Bush could make it legal to drill offshore today if he wants too. Is it payback to his oil buddies to help keep the price of oil higher for them?Is Bush refusing to overturn his fathers executive order banning offshore drilling payback for his oil buddies
No.





You guys really need to get over this joined at the hip with his oil buddies mantra. There's absolutely nothing to back it up, but it's so easy to say.Is Bush refusing to overturn his fathers executive order banning offshore drilling payback for his oil buddies
No, it's political posturing.





We have leased so many public lands and waters to oil companies where oil has been discovered, that if they made their best effort to drill as fast as possible (forgetting they have wells they can workover that have been capped and forgetting what it does to their average cost and forgetting that this price spike will not last forever), they'd be drilling 30-40 years in round-the-clock shifts.





Leasing more land isn't going to lead to more drilling, and he knows that it won't.





Oil at 135 dollars a barrel means more wells are operating and more drilling is happening though. Workover rigs are up 32% year-over-year, and rotary drilling rigs are up in use 38% in the last 11 months.
Because the 'Uniter' likes to keep the pot stirred. Notice he's pointing his finger at the Dems, when it's Rep Govs that won't allowing off shore drilling. I remember the spill in Santa Barbara in the late sixties, the Governator is not likely to lift any bans here.
Nope, he's just playing political games. I'm sure that if the Democrats wanted to pass a bill and send it to him, he'd veto it saying, ';My dad put this in and I'm not going to allow these Democrats to undo the good things my daddy did for America.'; But by playing both sides he can say, ';Hey, they won't do it...look...see. They're bad.';
The EO by Bush 41 was about a certain type of exploration... There is a federal drilling ban enacted by congress in 1981.





There would be no point in authorizing an outdated exploration process when you can't legally drill for whatever you happen to find!
Bush said he would lift the executive order as soon as congress lifted the 1981 federal order. I even heard that on a liberal news station.
Actually Bush Sr. just renewed the order, Reagan put it in place to begin with.